One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich / An Incident at Krechetovka Station / Matryona's House
by Aleksandr Solženitsyn
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Sis.: Ivan Denisovitsin päivä (1962), Tapahtui Kretsetovkan asemalla, Matrjonan talo (1963).Tags
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was born on December 11, 1918 in Kislovodsk in the northern Caucusus Mountains. He received a degree in physics and math from Rostov University in 1941. He served in the Russian army during World War II but was arrested in 1945 for writing a letter criticizing Stalin. He spent the next decade in prisons and labor camps and, show more later, exile, before being allowed to return to central Russia, where he worked as a high school science teacher. His first novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, was published in 1962. In 1970, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. In 1974, he was arrested for treason and exiled following the publication of The Gulag Archipelago. He moved to Switzerland and later the U. S. where he continued to write fiction and history. When the Soviet Union collapsed, he returned to his homeland. His other works include The First Circle and The Cancer Ward. He died due to a heart ailment on August 3, 2008 at the age of 89. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- A. Solzhenitsyn: Russian Study Series No. 54; One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich / An Incident at Krechetovka Station / Matryona's Place; One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich / An Incident at Krechetovka Station / Matryona's House
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- Один день Ивана Денисовича; Случай на станции Кочетовка; Матрёнин двор
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- This work contains three stories: "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich", "An Incident at Krechetovka Station" and "Matryona's Place"
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